Happy Lucky Combo is even Happier!

There is a new Happy Lucky Combo CD.
“LUCKY BUDDHA”
Now available at Crossroads for only $5.00!

Thanks to Richard H. over at Hills & Heights for letting us know.

New Art Building For VCU

VCU announces new Art Institute building for Broad and Belvidere.

“Today, VCU is unveiling the design for the three-story, 38,000-square-foot building, which will be built with private funds and is expected to open in 2015. Holl, whose work includes the Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, designed the project with Chris McVoy.

The institute will provide a venue for art in the broadest sense of the term, said Joseph H. Seipel, dean of VCU’s School of the Arts.

The building’s zinc exterior will have a pre-weathered patina that was selected to complement and contrast with surrounding brick structures, Holl said. It also will have clear and translucent glass walls to add transparency and bring in natural light.

In the center of the building will be a two-story “forum,” a flexible meeting area that connects to the ground-floor performance space and opens to the sculpture garden and café.

More from the RTD.

Need More Mummy?

There is another mummy exhibit in Richmond. The exhibit at the Lora Robins Gallery at the University of Richmond has been extended until November.

From the gallery website:

The University of Richmond Museums presents Ti-Ameny-Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian Woman, and Modern Science,on view from February 23 to June 29, 2012, in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. The exhibition celebrates the life of Ti-Ameny-Net, a woman who lived in Egypt in the 7th century BCE and whose mummy was donated to Richmond College in 1876 by Professor Jabez L. M. Curry. This exhibition features the mummy of Ti-Ameny-Net, her elaborately decorated wooden coffin, and a selection of Egyptian artifacts from the collections of the Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World, Department of Classical Civilization, University of Richmond, and the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums.

Also on view are images and information based on modern scientific studies of the mummy conducted by University of Richmond undergraduate, Caroline Cobert, ’12, biology and classical civilization double major. The results of the studies are presented in the exhibition, along with some of the tools used in the scientific analyses and the three-dimensional CT (computerized tomography) images from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. Also displayed is a comparison of the x-rays of Ti-Ameny-Net from the 1970s and from 2009, to demonstrate how the contribution of recent modern medicine has enhanced the study of the ancient dead.

There is a nice time-line describing the history of how Ti-Ameny-Net came to be in Richmond and what has happened to her since 1876.  Well worth the trip to this not so well known gallery at UR.

Summer Hours for the Lora Robins Gallery are Tues – Fri 1 to 5pm

Photos of the exhibit.

Record Store Day!

Below is Plan 9’s schedule for April 21st at their Cary Street and Charlottesville locations. Record Store Day as well as Small Business Day.  Support your local record store.

Speaking of record stores we saw “Sound It Out” last weekend a great independent film by Jeanie Finlay. A documentary about the last record store and its’ customers in Teeside, UK. A moving and funny film. Thanks to Mary and Robert for loaning it to us. Although it has taken us 6 months to finally watch it. For more info on “Sound It Out” click here!

A link to Saint Saviour, one of the performers who plays in the record store in the documentary.

Shop local and shop often!

Currently Experiencing Problems!

Only Two Days Left!

Only two days left of the 2012 James River Film Festival put on by the James River Film Society.

Tuesday 7:00 VCU Grace Street Theater Free – VCUarts Cinematheque: “You All Are Captains”

Tuesday 8:00 $3 Gallery 5 – “The Occupied Moment”

Wednesday 7:00 $5 VCU Grace Street Theater – “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song”

Wednesday 9pm Free VCU Grace Street Theater – “Hold Still, Keep Moving: VCUarts Student Filmmakers”

RVA Street Art Festival on Flickr!

Here are some photos of the 2012 Richmond Street Art Festival.  Flickr photos by Richmond photographer Richard Hayes.

Thanks to Shockoe News!

The James River Film Festival!

April 12 – 18  ~ See You There!

There will be a showing of Futuroplis on Friday April 13th at Noon at the Richmond Public Library downtown.

April + Richmond = Art

Art Whino‘s “Art G40 Summit-Richmond” will be focusing on the mural in its month long exhibit with over 500 artists here in Richmond. Here is the month long calendar of events. Art Whino is a DC art gallery whose mission is to bring new art forms to the world and this year Art Whino has targeted Richmond.

Also this month is the Richmond Virgina Street Art Festival from April12-15 at the Shockoe Flood Wall Power Plant.

The RVA Street Art Festival will bring together more than a dozen national street artists to create an outdoor gallery along Richmond’s James River Power Plant Building and Floodwall. The Festival will be centered from the Power Plant building and Floodwall near Vistas on the James and Pipeline Overlook. Invited artists will create their art on gigantic 18′ x 32′ murals.

Here for the schedule and the artists.

The RVA Street Art Festival is produced by Ed Trask and Jon Baliles along with Venture Richmond.

If that is not enough already, 19th The James River Film Festival runs from April 12-18.

Independent films for independent spirits.

April is turning out to be another great month in RVA!

 

History Ink, The Tattoo Archive Project

The Valentine Museum, along with help and support from Style weekly, and Candela Books + Gallery wants to catalog your tattoos if they have been inked by a Richmond artist.

Famous for cataloging all things River City, the History Center is venturing into a different kind of historical archiving – tattoos.

Given that Richmond is the third most tattooed city in the nation, the History Center is expanding our horizons and archives to include Richmond tattoos.

Photographs will be taken in May and June and will be featured in a photo exhibit in October.

If you have or know of a tattoo inked by a Richmond artist and would like to be considered for an initial appointment, call (804) 649-0711 ext. 322, email pr@richmondhistorycenter.com